When Libya appeared on the edge of a humanitarian disaster during its 2011 civil war, President Obama and other Western leaders sent in the cavalry: NATO warplanes with orders to protect civilians from slaughter by the country's longtime leader, Moammar...

The United States is condemning the purported killing of 21 Egyptians by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group as "despicable" and "cowardly."
White House press secretary Josh Earnest adds in a statement Sunday that the group's...

IRBIL, Iraq The Egyptian government said that it had bombed Islamist targets throughout Libya on Monday to retaliate for the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians whose murders on a beach apparently near Tripoli were recorded and posted Sunday on the...

IRBIL, Iraq The Egyptian government said Monday that it had bombed Islamist targets throughout Libya to retaliate for the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians whose murders on a beach apparently near Tripoli were recorded and posted Sunday on the Internet....

When he entered the White House in 2009, Barack Obama had grand ambitions in foreign policy. He planned to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, build a better relationship with Russia, broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians and offer a hand of friendship to Iran and the Muslim world.
Six years later, the president, and the rest of us, are sadder but wiser. American troops are still in Afghanistan and back in Iraq, although in much smaller numbers and not in ground combat. The...

Even as authorities in Cairo said they were investigating the abduction of seven Egyptian Christians in Libya, reports emerged Saturday of more than a dozen other such kidnappings carried out during the day by suspected Islamic militants.
Despite the intensifying dangers as Libya splinters into warring fiefdoms, many Egyptians continue to seek work in the neighboring North African nation, including large numbers of Coptic Christians from southern Egypt or the Nile Delta.
But as Islamic militants...

The U.S. and allied air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria that began earlier this week have disrupted the militant group's command and control and logistics ability, the top U.S military officer said on Friday.
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon that the 'targeted' military action had also had an effect on the group's infrastructure in Syria.
Dempsey said he expected a 'persistent and sustained' campaign against the militant...

Sebastian Junger can't seem to get war 'out of his system.
With his new, highly personal documentary, "The Last Patrol," it appears the filmmaker-journalist behind the Oscar-nominated Afghanistan War documentary "Restrepo" would be the first to agree.
Junger's latest is partly a tribute to "Restrepo" co-director Tim Hetherington, who was killed two years ago while covering the civil war in Libya. "The Last Patrol" takes place on the home front, where Junger and three other vets hike from Washington,...

Matthew VanDyke was a naive, adventure-driven videographer with OCD when he went to North Africa without a word of Arabic, searching for his manhood. He became buddies with a Libyan guy, and when Libya's revolution broke out, he picked up a gun alongside his camera and fought with his friend. Gaddafi fell, VanDyke came home triumphant, the end. Never mind that the Libyan civil war still rages -- we've got an American to celebrate. Just like the U.S.' deeply flawed foreign policy, Marshall Curry's "Point...

I read with disbelief a letter writer's premise that President Barack Obama has kept the country moving forward ("Obama has kept the country moving forward," Oct. 13). Apparently, she has not noted the international messes that we have created with fewer allies but many coddled enemies. We have only to mention a few — the continuing conflict in Libya, the disaster in Syria, the almost complete nuclear bomb program in Iran and the rise of ISIL in Iraq and Syria. On the domestic front, there has...